The HP Office of OpenVMS Programs is conducting these webinars in two time zones to cover all of you across the globe. The procedures are the basically same for connecting to either webinar but the links go to different "events" so pick the time you want to attend and follow the link of your choice.

On 24 February you will get the chance. Barry Kierstein will present "Overview of Availability Manager Functionality, Installation and Configuration" at 08:00 EST (13:00 GMT). YES, we know this is early but it is a presentation for a worldwide audience. And if it is too early or too late then you can always view the recorded version at the VMS SIG home page on Connect Worldwide.

For those who do not know him, Barry was the project leader of the Availability Manager product at Hewlett-Packard Corporation, where he worked for almost 14 years, and has extensive knowledge of its use and function. Previous to his tenure at Hewlett-Packard in the OpenVMS Engineering group, he was an OpenVMS system manager for the academic computer cluster at a large university for twelve years.

Barry is currently on contract with two companies - Migration Specialties and eCube Systems, working on products for OpenVMS and Alpha systems.

The abstract of the webinar is:

Ever wish you could see the health of all your OpenVMS systems in one window? You can with the Availability Manager, a product developed by OpenVMS engineering. This product presents the performance health of any number of OpenVMS systems, and also analyzes each for any resource contention problems, and also fixes various problems to allow OpenVMS systems to continue functioning.

This webinar will present an overview of the Availability Manager functionality, installation and configuration. Time will be available for questions and answers.

You can get the registration information and update your calendar by visiting the Connect Worldwide web page for this event.

Ever since we were informed of the planned OpenVMS Month by Connect Worldwide in LATE January 2010 we have been scrambling to pull together events, webinars and webcasts which we thought might be of interest to you, the OpenVMS Community. This effort has been driven by a handful of people from the User Community and the Vendor Community to date. As we move forward we are looking to include more vendors and more end users in the process. The central team that has been coordinating this effort has been Michelle Popejoy, Connect OpenVMS SIG; John Apps, HP OpenVMS Ambassador; and myself.

So far this month we have seen the introduction of the Itanium Tukwila or Itanium 9300, depending on your preference. We have had the HP OpenVMS Technology Webinar on GNV and the announcement of OpenVMS Open Source development systems from the HP Office of OpenVMS Programs. Keith Parris and Colin Butcher have presented webinars on clustering and networking respectively. Also, eCube Systems presented a webinar on application modernization utilizing their NXTware Eclipse based development environment. All this and we are just half way through the month. And, yes, some of these presentations we have had not a single thing to with but they have fit our schedule for OpenVMS Month nicely - Thank You, Hewlett-Packard!.

Well to be honest we are not even half way through, as we decided to stretch the OpenVMS Month into March. We had to do this to fit in some very special webinars and events that as of yet we can not announce centering on OpenVMS Version 8.4. Keep watching this space for more information about those sessions.

In the mean time let us tell you about the other events coming in the weeks and months to come. Yes, months as well! Besides all this we are working on developing a regularly scheduled webinar series specifically targeted at the OpenVMS Community.

Between now and the end of February we have as many as TEN webinar sessions available which should be of interest to you in the OpenVMS Community. Most of these events are listed on the Connect Worldwide calendar. These include:

17 February 08:30 GMT and 15:30 GMT, two webinar sessions HP OpenVMS Technology Webinar #5. Presented by HP Office of OpenVMS Programs in conjunction with ISV CipherSoft, Inc. This webinar will concentrate on the modernization of older Oracle Forms oriented applications on VMS to newer implementations utilizing Oracle, Java and other technologies on OpenVMS. This then allows for utilization of currently supported products and migration to newer, more powerful processors and systems.

23 February 17:00 GMT, HP Technology Services is offering "Blade Basics Fundamentals Overview" This 1-hour webinar is designed with new C7000 blade system administrators in mind. We will address hardware basics and review the Firmware Matrix. A free one hour on-line seminar. (note - this webinar will also be on 26 April 2010) More information at: http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/us/en/energy-efficient/seminars-short-take.html

24 February - we are hoping for a webinar on HP Availability Manager - more as soon as we have it.

26 February - we are hoping for a webinar on "Extreme Encryption" - more as soon as we have it.

So now we have made it through February, as you can see we have lot of things happening in the next two weeks.

And there is even more in APRIL! The OpenVMS "traveling roadshow" aka OpenVMS Technical Update Days are coming in April to Chicago (5/6 April), Dallas (8/9 April), New York (15/16 April) and Washington, DC (12/13 April). Registration is not yet available but our understanding is it will be by the end of February. More on these items and more events for March and April as soon as we have information on them - including a special OVMS 8.4 event.

Mark your calendars! Attend a webinar, or three!

As we move forward if there are topics you want to talk about or a topic you want to learn about or a topic you think would be of interest to others in the OpenVMS Community please contact us at participate@viavms.com so we can work on arranging this for you.

Rob Eulenstein of the Customer Support Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado will present "Introduction to Crash Dump Analysis for OpenVMS I64" on Wednesday 24 March 2010 at two separate times, 15:00 GMT and 22:00 GMT. This webinar, with LOTS of useful information will last approximately 90 minutes. A separate webinar on the "Introduction of to Crash Dump Analysis for OpenVMS Alpha" will be presented on Friday, 19 February 2010, see this page for more details.

Introduction to Crash Dump Analysis for OpenVMS I64

Abstract/Outline:=================

A Quick Review of the Itanium Architecture

Analysis of an Itanium INVEXCEPTN Bugcheck

Analysis of an Itanium PGFIPLHI Bugcheck

Itanium Looping Process Example

Example Analysis Of An Itanium CPUSPINWAIT Bugcheck

The Itanium Register Stack

Example Analysis of an Itanium KRNLSTAKNV Bugcheck

Example Analysis of an Itanium In-Line Bugcheck

Reference Material on the Intel Itanium Architecture

Using the SDA> COPY Command, A Must For Customers

Rob Eulenstein's bio:

Rob Eulenstein joined Digital Equipment Corporation in March 1987. He has spent his entire tenure with Digital/Compaq/HP supporting OpenVMS from the Customer Support Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He currently works as a consultant in Multivendor Systems Engineering which is part of GSE (Global Solutions Engineering). Rob's areas of expertise include: crash dump analysis, internals, clusters, performance, shadowing, RMS, and the file system. Rob is a member of the OpenVMS Ambassadors organization which provides a highly demanded pre-sales support function as well as an extremely important interface between customers and OpenVMS engineering. Rob holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife and four children.

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This webinar is being presented with the assistance of HP Connect as part of the on OpenVMS webinar series. See "What to expect from OpenVMS Month" for more details and other events.

Rob Eulenstein of the Customer Support Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado will present "Introduction to Crash Dump Analysis for OpenVMS Alpha" on Friday 19 February 2010 at two separate times, 15:00 GMT and 22:00 GMT. This webinar, with LOTS of useful information will last approximately 90 minutes. A separate webinar on the "Introduction of to Crash Dump Analysis for OpenVMS I64" will be presented on Wednesday, 24 MARCH 2010, see this page for more details.

Introduction to Crash Dump Analysis for OpenVMS Alpha

Abstract/Outline:=================

Why Bugcheck The System ?????

In-Line vs Exception Related Bugchecks

Displaying The Contents Of A Virtual Address In SDA

OpenVMS STACKS

Examining The System Stack - Alpha

Summary of Fundamental Register Addressing Modes

Alpha Macro Instructions Which Affect The Stack Pointer

Building The Stack On Alpha - Lab Exercise

Example Analyses of Alpha In-Line Bugchecks

SYS$DKDRIVER INCONSTATE

How The Stack Is Built For An INVEXCEPTN Bugcheck - Detailed Code Flow

Exception Conditions

Exception Handling On Alpha

Layout of Exception Context Area - Alpha

Example INVEXCEPTN Show Stack Output on Alpha

Example Analysis of an INVEXCEPTN Bugcheck on Alpha

Rob Eulenstein's bio:

Rob Eulenstein joined Digital Equipment Corporation in March 1987. He has spent his entire tenure with Digital/Compaq/HP supporting OpenVMS from the Customer Support Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He currently works as a consultant in Multivendor Systems Engineering which is part of GSE (Global Solutions Engineering). Rob's areas of expertise include: crash dump analysis, internals, clusters, performance, shadowing, RMS, and the file system. Rob is a member of the OpenVMS Ambassadors organization which provides a highly demanded pre-sales support function as well as an extremely important interface between customers and OpenVMS engineering. Rob holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife and four children.

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This webinar is being presented with the assistance of HP Connect as part of the OpenVMS Month events. See "What to expect from OpenVMS Month" for more details and other events.